{"id":197175,"date":"2016-03-08T15:07:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T15:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=197175"},"modified":"2016-03-08T15:07:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T15:07:06","slug":"teacher-accused-of-insulting-dce-remanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=197175","title":{"rendered":"Teacher accused of insulting DCE remanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A teacher who was arrested at Ekumfi Otabanadzi in the Central Region for allegedly insulting the District Chief Executive of \u00a0Ekumfi, has been charged with indecent assault.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Magistrate Court at Ajumako in the Central Region, has remanded him in prison custody for a week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;SMeCOJpZFj6wFU5JVovZEO6Eqag9Jjq4&#8243;]The teacher, Daniel Hammond, a former Presiding Member of the District, was arrested last Friday whiles teaching at his school allegedly on the orders of the DCE, Ibrahim Dawson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was granted bail by the Headteacher of his school, after the police had initially refused him bail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The teacher told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> that his only supposed crime was that, he notified the DCE\u00a0of some discrepancies in the\u00a0President\u2019s \u2018Accounting to the People\u2019 address regarding some\u00a0construction projects at Ekumfi-Esuehyia, also in the Central Region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Mr. Hammond, the DCE was offended by his\u00a0prying and first\u00a0lodged a complaint at the Ekumfi District Assembly that he had insulted him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI was in the class room teaching and I saw two police men approaching the school. The whole thing was that my DCE had reported me to police that I had insulted him so I should go to the police station with them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Franklin Badu Jnr\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A teacher who was arrested at Ekumfi Otabanadzi in the Central Region for allegedly insulting the District Chief Executive of \u00a0Ekumfi, has been charged with indecent assault. A Magistrate Court at Ajumako in the Central Region, has remanded him in prison custody for a week. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;SMeCOJpZFj6wFU5JVovZEO6Eqag9Jjq4&#8243;]The teacher, Daniel Hammond, a former Presiding Member of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}